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Re: aborted dead transaction cleanup

From: D S <dougcodes_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-07-25 18:33:48 CEST

BTW, this was w/ svn 1.1.1 using FSFS

On 7/25/05, D S <dougcodes@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a couple of large commits fail on me in the past few days due to
> some sort of network error on the client machine. I started the
> commits again on a smaller scale and then appeared to have run out of
> disk space on my repository partition on the server. When I checked, I
> discovered that the two aborted commit transactions had not been
> cleaned up. I read up on how to do this in the SVN book except I
> forgot to login as the repository owner when I ran svnadmin rmtxns. I
> realized this when I got the following error:
>
> [doug@eagle repositories]$ svnlook info atb-test --transaction 21-1
> doug
> 2005-07-25 08:12:35 -0400 (Mon, 25 Jul 2005)
> 22
> checking in Scenario 3
> [doug@eagle repositories]$ svnadmin rmtxns atb-test 21-1
> svn: Transaction cleanup failed
> svn: Can't remove 'atb-test/db/transactions/21-1.txn': Permission denied
>
>
>
> So I went and logged in as svnowner and tried on the other dead
> transaction and it worked. I tried on the first one again and got:
>
> -bash-2.05b$ svnadmin rmtxns atb-test 21-1
> svn: Reference to non-existent node '0.0.t21-1' in filesystem 'atb-test/db'
> -bash-2.05b$ svnadmin lstxns atb-test
> 21-1
>
> I can check the transactions dir and see there is something still
> there. It appears to be some sort of props file (but it looks empty)
> and the whole dir is only 932K vs the 2GB that was there before.
>
> -bash-2.05b$ du -h atb-test/db/transactions/21-1.txn/
> 932K atb-test/db/transactions/21-1.txn
>
> -bash-2.05b$ ls -al atb-test/db/transactions/21-1.txn/
> total 936
> drwxrwxr-x 2 svnowner svnowner 950272 Jul 25 10:55 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 svnowner svnowner 4096 Jul 25 11:14 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 svnowner svnowner 0 Jul 25 10:55 props
>
> -bash-2.05b$ ls -al atb-test/db/transactions/21-1.txn/props
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 svnowner svnowner 0 Jul 25 10:55
> atb-test/db/transactions/21-1.txn/props
>
> -bash-2.05b$ cat atb-test/db/transactions/21-1.txn/props
> -bash-2.05b$
>
>
> It appears that the first attempt at removal under my regular username
> actually mostly worked (and accomplished my goal of freeing disk
> space), but I still have some junk left lying around. So I have two
> questions:
>
> 1. Is there a way for me to clean up the rest of this junk?
> 2. Do I need to?
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug
>

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